Background: ChatGPT, a natural language processing model, has shown great promise in revolutionizing the field of medicine. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the transformative potential of OpenAI's ChatGPT on healthcare and scientific research, with an exploration on its prospective capacity to impact the field of pediatric surgery.
Methods: Through an extensive review of the literature, we illuminate ChatGPT's applications in clinical healthcare and medical research while presenting the ethical considerations surrounding its use.
Results: Our review reveals the exciting work done so far evaluating the numerous potential uses of ChatGPT in clinical medicine and medical research, but it also shows that significant research and advancements in natural language processing models are still needed.
Conclusion: ChatGPT has immense promise in transforming how we provide healthcare and how we conduct research. Currently, further robust research on the safety, effectiveness, and ethical considerations of ChatGPT is greatly needed.
Level of study: V.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; ChatGPT; Large language model.
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